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Blustering   /blˈəstərɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bluster  v. t.  To utter, or do, with noisy violence; to force by blustering; to bully. "He bloweth and blustereth out... his abominable blasphemy." "As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands."



Bluster  v. i.  (past & past part. blustered; pres. part. blustering)  
1.
To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. "And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round."
2.
To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; to act in a noisy, tumultuous way; to play the bully; to storm; to rage. "Your ministerial directors blustered like tragic tyrants."



adjective
Blustering  adj.  
1.
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. "A tempest and a blustering day."
2.
Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow."






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"Blustering" Quotes from Famous Books



... camino[Lat]. explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize[obs3], fulminate. Adj. violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle, bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant. turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging &c. v.; troublous[obs3], riotous; tumultuary[obs3], tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied &c. (insane) 503. desperate &c. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... very kind to her—after his own particular fashion, which was very different from blustering Tom Halliday's weak indulgence. He allotted and regulated her life to suit his own convenience, it is true; but he bought her handsome dresses, and took her with him in hired carriages when he drove about the strange cities. He was apt to leave Georgy and the hired carriage ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... blustering morning, with no smell of frost in the air, but rather every sign of thaw, and the old man, after watching the two tall mail-clad figures stride off with their dwarfish guide hastening in front, closed the door, and turned with a grave and ...
— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston

... men met Terry with cordial nods, but there was a carelessness about their demeanor which seemed strange to Terry. In his experience, the men of the mountains were a timid or a blustering lot before newcomers, uneasy, and anxious to establish their place. But these men acted as if meeting unknown men were a part of their common, daily experience. They were as much at their ease as ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand

... the field it went blustering and humming, And the cattle all wondered whatever was coming. It plucked by their tails the grave matronly cows, And tossed the colts' manes all about their brows, Till offended at such a familiar salute, They all turned their backs ...
— The Posy Ring - A Book of Verse for Children • Various


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